Posted on 07/02/2018 9:40:43 AM PDT by re_tail20
In the fast-changing political battleground that is suburban Denver, Somali families dine on goat soup and fish fritters in a onetime Chinese restaurant where golden dragons still guard the doorways.
Where the English Teacup cafe once stood, a new Japanese dessert bar now stays open late, selling green tea soft-serve and fish-shaped pastries to lines of Korean and Latino teenagers.
And up and down Havana Street, auto lots once run by the likes of Dealin’ Doug are now Ethio-Motors, Maaliki Motors and Jordan Motors — names that reflect the new owners and new customers who are part of a hyperspeed transformation of this old stretch of suburbia. It has become a mile-high United Nations, where 160 languages can be heard in public-school hallways and nearly one in five people is foreign-born.
If demographics really were destiny, this place would be a gold mine for the Democratic Party’s efforts to reap political gains from an increasingly diverse and nonwhite America.
Instead, Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District has become a scene of frustration and failure for Democrats. In election after cash-soaked election, Democrats have been unable to unseat Mike Coffman, a five-term Republican congressman, even after his Republican-layup district was redrawn to slice out some conservative white voters and include thousands more Hispanic residents.
Mr. Coffman has kept winning in part because he has sought to show he embraced the needs of his newer constituents. He has positioned himself as a renegade Republican on immigration issues, scalding the president’s policies and breaking with his party’s leadership on the need for an immigration overhaul.
He has forged bonds with his district’s immigrant communities, learning to speak Spanish and spending weekends floating between meetings at Ethiopian and Korean churches, Buddhist temples and Islamic centers. He supported a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were...
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He had to oppose Trump’s position on what... immigration? Were there enough illegales in his district to matter? Weren’t the rest mainly “fair and square” even though taking advantages of loose quotas?
The devil is in the details. Not everybody’s local desires will be in line with a national policy idea. If a locality wants to be, not an illegal sanctuary, but still a legal immigration magnet, then its willingness should be taken into account. To want to be in Maine doesn’t mean to be showing up with equal probability in the other 49, etc.
Well this sure sounds terrible. Why are you there?
By the time they do, some new ethnic groups may hate each other more than they hate Whitie.
It's naive to think White versus non-White is the only dimension in American politics.
That’s not impossible; when the Grand Lefty Plan finally disintegrates of its hateful foolishness, many will be staring at one another accusing them of leaving the others holding the bag.
I always thought Havana Street was in Aurora,Co which is east of Denver. Mike Coffman is not in Denver. Suburb Yes. Not Denver.
Lived here since 1968. Why do you live where you do? :-)
Family, friends, church, real estate rental investments, etc.
We can't *all* be lucky enough to live in CA or MA or NY or NJ, you know.
By opposing the President on immigration and DACA and zero tolerance? His opponent is bringing up the environment and the tax plan; if Coffman has to take positions opposite of Trump on those too then what has your big tent accomplished?
DACA could bite him if there’s a lot of that in his district. But is there a lot of it? I’m hearing that most non-illegale immigrants are fine with tight enforcement against illegales.
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